The completely dysfunctional energy market controlled by speculators is one of the most spectacularly poor outcomes of privatisation and deregulation. Added to well meaning, but over zealous efforts of the green lobby to reduce energy consumption, there is now a burden of spiraling costs on every household and business, acting as a very real brake on […]
The problem with our piecemeal taxation regime is that it does not provide an effective rudder to steer the economy at times of stress. Had the government had the guts to reform it to a single rate of income tax, as a constituent part of three linked but flexible core elements of taxation, income,vat and personal allowances, it […]
This blog has said before that the rule in a civil war is not to recognise rebels as a formal government until they overthrow the legitimate government. We applied the rule during the American Civil War and all civil wars since. Moreover it is important to recognise that disparate forces can join in revolution only […]